“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”― ﻿﻿Maya Angelou﻿﻿Every human is innately creative. After all, to live is to create a day, to create a life, to create a personal history. As creative beings, it is important to engage our creativity and to strengthen it so we can live a life with great possibilities rather than limits. Difficulties and challenges are inevitable as we grow through life and they are as unique as the individuals experiencing them. One size does not fit all. Creativity and the arts are powerful and personal and are the basis of the philosophy and practice of expressive arts therapy. We step into art makingfinding or re-finding inner resources, new perspectives and insights, while building skills and confidence to move forward.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. --- ﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Oscar Wilde

What is Expressive Arts Therapy?

Expressive arts therapy is an arts based approach that offers clients possibilities to explore challenges, difficulties and obstacles they are experiencing in their lives in a safe, non-judgmental and accessible and creative environment. When we get creative, everything is possible and barriers become insights allowing us to move beyond our limits.

As a resource focused practice we will highlight what is working in your life rather than emphasizing deficits, limitations, and weaknesses. You are the expert of your own life. You already have so many strengths, insights and skills. Some you may have forgotten, some you may not be aware of and some just need a little time and creative play to come forward and begin to grow. During our sessions we will concentrate on skill building and resource discovery through the unlimited experimentation and inspiration of the arts and possibilities in play and simple creative activities that can have wide ripples of positive effect in your life.

Previous arts experience is not required, and emphasis is always on the creative process rather than solely on the product. From poetry to movement, painting to sculpture, art in its many forms awaits collaboration to inform and enlighten without demands of perfection or interpretation. Reach toward your greatest potential by stepping into the arts, play with the creative freedom available 'outside the box' and allow your innate creative self to find and refine solutions that are right for you.